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- Netflix’s ‘Smart Downloads’ will save your phone’s storage
It was less than four years ago that Netflix said offline downloads were ‘never going to happen.’ Thankfully, the company has changed its tune since and offline downloads are now a common practice for watching video on mobile devices. There’s only one problem: downloaded video takes up a lot of s... - Hang on, you can @ people in Gmail?
A significant chunk of my workday is spent in Gmail. It’s probably the single product I use the most, and with a product that big, it’s easy for features to pass under your nose. That’s exactly the case with this: it turns out you can “@” people in Gmail, just like Twitter and Instagram. Here’s h... - IBM is using its AI to predict how employees will perform
- The EU sucks for women tech founders
- Protect yourself online with two years of NordVPN coverage at 80% off
- All this hellish red robot wants to do is clap at you
- Nvidia and MIT’s AI can clean up your noisy photos
- June in Africa: Google balloons, ICOs, and internet shutdowns
- PSA: MyEtherWallet compromised in hack, urges users to move tokens now
- Bancor loses $12.5M worth of Ethereum to cyber baddies in overnight raid
- Samsung opens world’s largest mobile phone factory in India
Samsung Electronics opened the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturing plant by production capacity in India yesterday, taking the fight to its rivals in the burgeoning smartphone market in the country. The new plant – located in the industrial city of Noida – will help Samsung gradually doubl... - WhatsApp begins its difficult battle against fake news in India
Following a recent string of lynchings across India, largely fueled by misinformation spread via WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging service is responding to the government’s demands to tackle the issue of fake news and rumors on its platform. RS Prasad, the country’s current Union Minister fo... - iOS 11.4.1 can prevent cops from cracking your iPhone – but there’s a catch
- This is Microsoft’s $400 Surface Go
- Tech savvy drug users are relying on Apple Watch and Fitbit to keep them safe during cocaine binges
- YouTube will fight fake news and conspiracy theorists by linking to reputable articles
- Amazon banned Confederate flags but Nazi gear is A-OK!
- The UK’s new Minister for Digital (probably) doesn’t know anything about tech
- Twitter suspended over 70M accounts since May. Here’s a better solution.
- White House earmarks over $1B for quantum technology research
- EOS block producers briefly crash due to RAM misconfiguration
Fledgling cryptocurrency EOS can’t seem to catch a break. Over the weekend, top block producer, EOS New York, took to Twitter to notify users that several other block producers had crashed due to a RAM-related complication. It appears that shortly after the overall RAM usage on the platform passe... - This musical pillow lies between headphones and speakers, and it’s kind of a trip
Pillows haven’t fundamentally changed much over the millenia. They’re soft, squishy things you put your head on. But do you know what pillows have been missing? Sound. Fret no more, for the $300 Flexound Humu solves this glaring omission. Fully funded on Indiegogo and expected to ship in Septemb... - Bad old oil rigs could become good artificial reefs (we hope)
- 8 nifty, new apps that will help you save money
- People are VR’s killer content
- Python is too resourceful to ignore — so become a Python Power Coder and save $1,000
- Even Elon Musk is talking about the cryptocurrency scam epidemic on Twitter
- How these new apps are helping citizens solve their own petty crimes
- China brags its cryptocurrency ban has practically killed local Bitcoin trading
- A clone of the iconic Psion Agenda calendar app is now available for Android
- Polar’s fitness app made it dangerously easy to track soldiers and secret agents worldwide
Over the weekend, media outlets De Correspondent and Bellingcat reported that they were able to uncover the names of more than 6,400 military and intelligence agency personnel in many countries – simply by looking up their fitness activities in Polar’s insecure app. To be clear, the reporters did... - Timehop’s database breached compromising data of 21 million users
Timehop, an app that resurfaces your old photos and posts by connecting to your social media profiles, revealed that its cloud computing environment was hacked and the data of 21 million users was stolen on July 4. The stolen data comprised mostly of user names and email addresses. Of the 21 mill... - Watch Elon Musk’s rescue “submarine” for the Thai soccer boys’ team in testing
- 3D printing will bring artificial limbs to patients in Madagascar and Togo
- This man was fired by a computer. Real AI could have saved him
- Learn to run a Cisco network with this Cisco-approved certification training for just $59
- VR WILL REIGN
- How to engage with influencers on Twitter for your brand
- Quriobot is your website’s 24/7/365 help desk — and right now, it’s over 90 percent off
- This blank Google doc restored our faith in humanity
- Ever dreamed of selling your data for cash? Dream on
“Personal data is the new oil of the internet and the new currency of the digital world.” Not my words, but words of Ms Kuneva, the European commissioner back in 2009. As much as the bureaucrats are removed from the real life, she was right then and even more right now. Just look at the valuation... - Scientific publishing is rigged — at our expense
If ‘money makes the world go round,’ then the world of scientific publishing has proved to be no exception to the rule. When the first scientific journal, The Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions, came rolling off the press in 1665, it was paid for with a subscription model. In time, journa... - Microsoft fans are signing a petition to save the Surface Phone
- A tale of two Elons: Why this superhero should get banned from Twitter (but won’t)
- Sonos files to go public as it amps up its speaker game
- This startup can teach a car how to drive itself in 20 minutes
- Vivo’s powerful NEX phone is more than just a pretty bezel-less face
- I’m fascinated by this startup founder’s amazing haircut
- Experts throw shade on Australia’s $750M investment in IBM blockchain tech
- Be a hacker, save the world — and you can name your price to do it all
Tech Crunch
- French startup Ledger has been working for a while on a brand new app to manage your crypto assets on your computer. The company is designing and manufacturing one of the most secure hardware wallets out there. While it’s clear that security has always been the first focus of the company, the use...
- ANGLR raises $3.3 million to create a Fitbit for fishing
ANGLR, a tracking system for fisherpersons, has raised a $3.3 million Series A to add AR and wearables to their already impressive package of fishing trip management and devices to help record fishing data. That’s right… they caught a big one! Nic Wilson and Landon Bloomer started this Pittsburgh... - Box acquires Butter.ai to make search smarter
Box announced today that it has acquired Butter.ai, a startup that helps customers search for content intelligently in the cloud. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the Butter.AI team will be joining Box. Butter.AI was started by two ex-Evernote employees, Jack Hirsch and Adam Walz. Th... - Postmates adds another 100+ cities in the US, bringing total to 385
- Codefights becomes CodeSignal and launches a new ratings system for developers
- Instagram continues to promote Stories interactivity with new Q&A widget
- Tilting Point expands its user acquisition fund to $132M in annual spending
- Slack wants to make search a little easier with search filters
- Some iOS users report that 11.4 update triggers excessive battery drain
- WeWork competitor Convene raises a $152 million Series D
- Scale Venture Partners has a new $400 million fund to invest in enterprise companies
Scale Venture Partners, an 18-year-old, early-stage venture firm that focuses on software companies, has closed its sixth fund with $400 million, up slightly from the $335 million the firm raised in early 2016. Among its biggest hits: the e-signature company DocuSign, which went public in April; ... - Snapchat debuts a library of selfie filters
Piece by piece Snap is trying to eek a developer platform out of Snapchat Lenses and give users something extra at the same time. Today, we’re seeing the most user-facing of these efforts as Snapchat debuts a new Lens Explorer section which will give the user base greater access to scouting out n... - Facebook is testing augmented reality ads in the News Feed
Facebook is giving advertisers new ways to show off their products, including with augmented reality. At its F8 developer conference earlier this year, Facebook announced that it was working with businesses to use AR to show off products in Messenger. Now a similar experience will start appearing... - Audi signs MOU with Huawei to develop connected car technology
- Foursquare brings on Liz Ritzcovan as Chief Revenue Officer
- Toast raises $115M at a $1.4B valuation to create a one-stop management tool for restaurants
- With Lime teaming up with Uber, can rival Bird afford to go it alone?
- Waze and Esri expand partnership so cities can interpret and apply real-time data
- With Lockbox and Notes, Mozilla launches its first set of mobile Test Pilot experiments
- Musk’s mini sub “not practical” for Thai cave boys rescue
- Announcing the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 Agenda
TechCrunch Disrupt is the world’s biggest and most impactful tech startup conference, and this year, we’re upping the stakes even more. Taking place at Moscone West, Disrupt SF will feature the biggest names in tech, from Reid Hoffman to Kirsten Green to Dara Khosrowshahi. The agenda will have so... - Google Pay rolls out support for peer-to-peer payments and mobile ticketing
Google is making several updates to Google Pay, its recently-rebranded service for all its different payments tools. Most of these updates were announced earlier this year, but now, Google says they’re actually going live in the app. One of the additions is peer-to-peer payments. You could alread... - Facebook buys ads in Indian newspapers to warn about WhatsApp fakes
As Twitter finally gets serious about purging fake accounts, and YouTube says it will try to firefight conspiracy theories and fake news flaming across its platform with $25M to fund bona fide journalism, Facebook-owned WhatsApp is grappling with its own fake demons in India, where social media p... - Lodgify, the SaaS for vacation rentals, books $5M in Series A funding
- N26 updates its web app
- Only one week left to apply to Startup Battlefield MENA 2018
- The crypto world’s latest hack sees Israel’s Bancor lose $23.5M
- InVision mobile app updates include studio features and desktop to mobile mirroring
- Shippable teams up with ARM and Packet to launch a native CI/CD platform for ARM-based servers
- Popular crypto service MyEtherWallet hit by attack after Hola VPN gets hacked
- Grab co-founder says Southeast Asia still has plenty of competition despite Uber’s exit
Grab may have bought itself a dominant position in Southeast Asia through its acquisition of Uber’s regional business, but the company still believes there’s competition in the ride-hailing space despite what consumers may feel. But Grab customers aren’t alone in feeling that the Grab-Uber deal i... - After Uber buyout, Grab aims to go beyond rides to become Southeast Asia’s one-stop app
Grab is shrugging off the threat that Singapore might undo its acquisition of Uber’s Southeast Asia business after the ride-hailing firm announced a new strategy to become Southeast Asia’s one-stop “super app.” The Competition and Consumer Commission Singapore (CCCS) last week said it may levy a ... - Twitter’s CFO clarifies that its second-quarter user metrics won’t be affected by fake account purge
After a Washington Post report last week that Twitter’s fake account purge might affect its second-quarter user numbers, Twitter’s chief financial officer said on Monday that most accounts affected by its clean-up will not be included in its metrics. In a tweet, Ned Segal explained that most of t... - YouTube is fighting fake news with $25M to promote journalism and more context in search results
- Trump’s Supreme Court nominee opposes net neutrality, supports NSA bulk collection
- This is Microsoft’s $399 Surface Go
- Canon and Nikon are reportedly both planning full-frame mirrorless cameras this year
- Facebook was never ephemeral, and now its Stories won’t have to be
- Indianapolis vice cop says SESTA/FOSTA closure of Backpage has ‘blinded’ investigators
- Retail startup Bulletin is giving brands new tools to manage their in-store presence
- Overwatch ‘Pink Mercy’ sale raises $12M for breast cancer research
It can be hard sometimes to grok the scale of the gaming community, but the occasional charity event not only demonstrates the hugeness of the industry but also its diversity and willingness to shell out for a good cause. Today Blizzard announced that an Overwatch charity campaign raised an impre... - New Microsoft Surface hardware is probably arriving tomorrow
Microsoft all but announced as much via the official Surface account. The company tweeted out the leading question “Where will Surface go next?” along with an image of the full lineup — the Pro, Laptop, Book 2 and swiveling all-in-one Studio. The desktops each displaying 6:00 on Tuesday, July 10 ... - Instacart hires its first chief communications officer, Dani Dudeck
Instacart, the grocery delivery platform valued at $4.2 billion, has today announced that it has hired its first chief communications officer in Dani Dudeck. Dudeck has been in the communications world for the past 15 years, serving as VP of Global Communications at MySpace for four years and mov... - Meet TechCrunch in Tunis, Cairo, Dubai and Beirut this month
- TrustToken opens its dollar-backed cryptocurrency to accredited investors
- Snapchat code reveals team-up with Amazon for ‘Camera Search’
- PlayVS CEO Delane Parnell to talk high school esports at Disrupt SF
- Topbox raises $5M for its customer experience analytics service
- BigClapper does away with tedious clapping, happiness
- Digging deeper into smart speakers reveals two clear paths
The Verge
- Why a Sims game took seven years to add a pregnancy story arc
For years, having a baby in mobile life simulation game The Sims FreePlay was nothing more than a big blue button: press it, and a baby would magically appear. According to associate producer Joshua Birse, players constantly begged for a more in-depth experience that captured what it’s actually l... - Moment adds ‘pro’ shooting features to its iOS and Android camera apps
- Instagram adds the questions sticker, a new way to poll your friends
- Tesla signs agreement to build cars in China
- YouTube on Android is getting an Incognito mode
- TanaCon organizers, local police detail how the disastrous event collapsed
- Samsung is rumored to be working on a Galaxy Watch this year
- Amazon’s best pre-Prime Day deals: TP-Link Wi-Fi light switches and Amazon Echo Show
- UE Boom 2 at $59 is dirt cheap for a Bluetooth speaker this good
- Facebook starts testing AR ads in the News Feed
- Part of Scott Pruitt’s legacy is how he changed the jobs of conservation groups
Scott Pruitt is out as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, but his legacy remains. Pruitt’s scandal-plagued leadership has not only weakened environmental protections, but it changed the roles of conservation groups, which are reprioritizing and spending more time in court to fight f... - Netflix will automatically download new episodes of your favorite shows on Android
- How to follow the Overwatch League playoffs
- 10 years ago, the App Store still didn’t understand what it meant to be mobile
- Snapchat’s new Lens Explorer will let you browse thousands of community filters
- Boosted Board Stealth review: speed racer
- Why graphene hasn’t taken over the world...yet
- Buying tech on eBay is 10 percent cheaper today only
- You can save your plane tickets on Google Pay now
- Lil Tay returns, despite ‘troubles,’ with a docuseries
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- The Finney is a $1,000 dual-screen blockchain phone that’s endorsed by Lionel Messi
- Mozilla wants to make Firefox your iOS password manager
- Waze will provide traffic data to US cities to help make roads safer
- The dual-screen TicWatch Pro goes on sale for $250
- Microsoft’s $399 Surface Go aims to stand out from iPads or Chromebooks
- How San Francisco became an afterthought in the scooter wars
- Elon Musk’s mini-submarine ‘not practical’ for Thailand cave rescue, say authorities
- Nikon’s P1000 has a 125x zoom lens
- Trump’s Supreme Court nominee decided against net neutrality and for NSA surveillance
After intense speculation, President Trump said today that he has selected Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his nominee to succeed retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. In his announcement, the president introduced his nominee as a jurist with “impeccable credentials” and as “a judge’s judge.” Kavanaugh, who... - Microsoft’s Surface Go tablet has a 10-inch screen and starts at $399
- Star Wars: Episode IX will reportedly feature Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian
- This video of a Greenland glacier fracturing is a close, scary look at sea level rise
- YouTube is fighting conspiracy theories with ‘authoritative’ context and outside links
- Apple’s iOS passcode cracking defense can be bypassed using a USB accessory
- Reddit CEO says it’s ‘impossible’ to consistently enforce hate speech rules
- House Republicans demand answers from Alphabet following Gmail privacy scandal
- Facebook abandoned helicopter drone project months after first demo
- A Russian cargo ship will try to break the record for fastest trip to the space station
- This app reads Wikipedia to teach you about the cities you’re driving through
If you’re a fellow Wiki-addict who loves obscure local trivia, there’s now an app that’ll read it to you. Developed by Malte Ubl, the tech lead for Google’s AMP project, the app detects a user’s geolocation and matches it with relevant Wikipedia articles. The app then reads the articles out loud... - The best anti-Prime Day deals from Google, GameStop, eBay, and more
- Here are three ways Microsoft could have made a better Surface USB-C adapter
- Apple releases iOS 11.4.1 and blocks passcode cracking tools used by police
- You can now control Dish’s Hopper DVRs with Google Assistant
- Snapchat is working on a feature that can find products you snap on Amazon
- Snapchat is working on a feature that can find products you snap on Amazon
- The next year for HBO will be ‘like childbirth,’ AT&T’s new media CEO tells employees
- Uber is teaming up with Lime to add electric scooters to its app
- Microsoft teases new Surface unveiling for tomorrow